Typographical composing-machine.



A. HOYER. TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19.1914.

1,153,494. Patented Sept. 14, 1915.

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ANTON HOYER, on nnUKoLLn-nnn-Lnv, GE MANY, Assrsnoa T0 MERGENTHALER mnorvrn COMPANY, A CORPORATION on NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL CGMIEOSING-MACI-IINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 14:, 1915.

Application filed June 19, 1914 Serial No. 846,913.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANTON Horns, a subject of the German Emperor, and residing at Isarstrasse 11, III, Neukolln-Berlin, in

the Empire of Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Typographical Composing-lviachines, of which the following isa specification. i

This invention relates to improvements in typographical composing machines, particularly those known commercially under the trade mark Linotype, and it has for its object to provide new or improved means whereby, by the actuation of a single key, matrices can be delivered from a plurality of different magazine channels in alternation.

The invention will be: best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a diagrammatic side elevation of part of the machine embodying one. arrangement according to the present inven tion; Fig. 2 is a rear view of part of Fig.1, as seen from the right hand. side of that figure; Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of a part of Fig. 1; Fig. his a modified construction of the device; Figs. 5 and 6 are side elevations; and Fig. 7, a plan'of a further modi-' fied construction of the device.

In the arrangement shown in Fig. 1, there are provided two superposed magazines 1, but so far as the present invention is concerned, one only of these magazines needbe employed. and further description will deal with the invention as though this were the case. r v

The magazine 1 is provided with the usual spring controlled escapements 2, which are adapted to release the matrices contained in that magazine to allow them to pass onward through the assembled plate 3 toward the assembler, which latter device is not represented in the drawings, as it constitutes no part of the present invention.

Each of the escapements 2 is operatively engaged by an escapement reed 4, which is automatically operated by a cam yoke 5 whenever a corresponding key 6 is depressed. The cam yoke 5, key 6 andthe devices causative of the cam yokes operation are welllngown and as they constitute nopart of the present invention, no further description thereof is herein deemed to be necessary.

Each of the escapement reeds t is ordition 8, the latter adapted to be engaged by the projections of a rotatable cam 9 fast to ashaft 10 supported in suitable hearings in the fixed frame of the machine.

When the mechanism is designed to deliver matrices from two adjacent magazine channels in alternation, the rod 4: is provided with a head 4* of sufiicient size to enable it to engage with the lower ends of the fingers 6 pivoted to the escapement reeds 4 appertaining to those two magazine channels, and the projections 8 on those fingers are in staggered relationship to each other, so that when one of them is in contact with one of the projections of the cam 9, the other one will be resting in the recess between that projection and the next projection, as shown, for example, in Figs. 1 and3. When, with this arrangement, the key 6 is depressed the rod 4 is raised in the well-known manner and it engages with the end of the finger 6, which is then in a vertical position and whose projection 8 is then in engagement with a recess between two of the projections that finger toassume its vertical position.

hen the descent of the rod P allows the last elevated escapement reed a to descend, the projection S appertaining to that escapement reed rides over the particular tooth of the cam 9, which is then immediately beneath it and thus has the effect of throwing the respective finger 6 out of the vertical position into the inclined position, so that at the next depression of the key 6 that finger and the escapement reed to which it is connected will remain depressed, and the other, or companion, finger 6, which is then in its vertical position, will be actuated, with the result that the corresponding escapement reed and escapement will also be actuated.

In order to prevent the wear which would be caused by the turning ofthe cam disk through the foregoing fingers 6 and teeth 8, the means shown in Fig. 4 Inay be adopted. In this arrangement, there is secured on the shaft 10 a special ratchet wheel 11 hav ing a number of teeth twice that of the number of projections of the cam 9 and adapted to be engaged at each ascent. of the cam yoke 5 by a pawl 12 carried by the rod 4. It will thus be seen that in this arrangement the function of the teeth 8 and cam 9 is merely to cause the fingers 6 to move into and out of the vertical or operative position. i

In the further modification illustrated in Figs. 5, 6and 7, the last named movement,

into and out of operative position of the fingers 6' is effected by means of. triangular switches 13, formed integral with those fingers. In this arrangement, each of the fingers 6' is provided with a forwardly extending nose 14, adapted to be engaged by the upper end or head 4", and when so engaged it raises the respective finger 6 and the escapement reed 4 to which that finger is pivoted. The switches 13 of adjacent fingers 6 overlap each other, as represented in Fig. 7, and as one is raised it passes to the front of the other oneand in so. doing, by its rearwardly inclined surface, causes that switch and the finger 6 integral therewith, to move rearwardly so as to disengage its nose 14 from the head 4", which latter in its further ascent passes in front of'that nose as shown in Fig; 6, and carries with it the .nose 14 of the particular finger 6 then engaged with it, with the result that'thecorresponding escapement reed 4 and escapement 2 are duly actuated. When the escapement reed 4 thus raised is next allowed to descend, its switch 13 passes down the back of the switch of the.then rearwardly defiected finger 6, with the result that that finger, that is to say, the then. descending one, is moved rearwardly and itsnose 14 thereby brought out of the vertical path of the head 4'. .When this head 4 has descended below the level of the nose 14 of the then foremost finger 6, that finger 6 is moved forwardly under the influence of its weight 7, so that its nose 14 is then in the upward path of the head 4 and consequently, at thenext actuation of the cam yoke 5, the escapement reed 4, to which that particular nose 14 appertains, will be operated. Each of these last-described fingers .is provided at its lower end with a stop 15, which prevents it being swung too far forward under the influence of its respective weight 7, this stop, during, that motion, contacting with the head 4%" If desired, the before-described switches 13 may, as shown in Fig. 7, extend from brought into operation instead ofthe old. 7

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In the cases in. which the magazine channels involved in the combination are not situatedadjacent to each other, thehead 4 may be so formed as to engage. with the fingers 6 of the escapement reeds situated at a corresponding distance apart, and to avoid contacting with the. escapementreeds intermediately between those particular escapement reeds.

Having thus described my invention, I declare that what I claim and desire, to secure by Letters Patent is: i

1. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with a plurality of magazine channels, an escapementfor releasing the contents of each channel, an escapement reed actuating each escapement and a single device adapted to actuate all of such reeds, of afinger operatively connected to each escapement reed andmovzibleintoand out of the path of the reed-actuating device, and means operative to move the.

fingers successively out of the said path.

2. In a typographical composing @machine, the combination with a plurality of magazine channels, an escapement for re leasing thecontents of each channel, an es 7 capement reed actuating each escapement and a device adapted to actuate all of such reeds, of fingers operatively connected to the V 3. In a typographical composing machine,the combination with a plurality of magazine channels, an escapementfor releasing the contents of each channel, anescapement reed actuating each escapement, and a device adapted to actuate all of such reeds, of fingers operatively connectedtothe escapement reeds and movable into and out escapement reeds an'd'movable into and out of the path of the reed-actuating device, Weights automatically moving the fingers into that path, and automatic means to move the fingers successively out of said path, for the purpose described; 4. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with a plurality of magazine channels, an escapement for releasing the contents of each channel, anescapement reed actuating each escapement and a device adapted to actuate all of such reeds, of fingers operatively connected to the escapement reeds and movable into and out of the path of the reed-actuating device, and a cam on each finger adapted, during its ascent and descent, to engage a cam on another finger, the engagement during the ascent and descent moving respectively different fingers out of the said path.

5. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with a plurality of magazine channels, an escapement for re leasing the contents of each channel, an escapement reed actuating each escapement and a device adapted to actuate all of such reeds, of fingers operatively connected to the escapement reeds andmovable into and out of the path of the reed-actuating device, weights automatically moving the fingers into that path, and a cam on each finger adapted, during its ascent and descent, to engage a cam on another finger, the engagement during the ascent and descent moving respectively different lingers antagonistically to the weights.

6. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with a plurality of magazine channels, an escapement for releasing the contents of each channel, an escapement reed actuating each escapement and a device adapted to actuate all of such reeds, of a finger operatively connected to each escapement reed and movable into and out of the path of the reed actuating device, Weights automatically moving the fingers into that path, and stops on the fingers to limit such movement.

7. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with a plurality of escapement reeds and a device adapted, subject to the control of a key, to automatically operate them, of a finger on each such escapement reed adapted to occupy operative and inoperative positions, in the former of which positions it effects the operation of the escapement reed to which it is attached, and means operative to move the said fingers into and out of those positions.

8. In a typographical machine, the combination of a plurality of escapement reeds, a single operating device therefor, a connecting member located between each escapement reed and the operating device, a finger key controlling the action of the operating device, and automatic means for moving the connecting members successively into and out of action.

9. In a typographical machine, the combination of a plurality of escapement reeds, a single operating device therefor, a connecting member located between each escapement reed and the operating device, a finger key controlling the action of the operating device and means controlled by the actuation of the finger key for moving the connecting member successively into and out of action.

10. In a typographical machine, the combination of a plurality of escapement reeds, a single operating device therefor, a membe'r connected to each escapement reed and movable into and out of the path of the operating device, and automatic means for controlling the movements of said members.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

ANTON I-IOYER.

HENRY HAsPnR.

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